Research Interests
- neuroanatomical plasticity, hormones, development, cognition
Research Description
My students and I examine hormonal influences on neuronal structure. The emphasis is on cognitive parts of the rat brain, such as the cerebral cortex, corpus callosum and hippocampus, and on cognitive behavior. Our current projects include the neural and behavioral changes during adolescence and puberty and the effects of endocrine disruptors (eg, BPA) during early development and during adolescence.
I am not accepting more students because I will be retiring in the summer of 2024.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Colorado
- M.A. University of Illinois
- B.A. Lawrence University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Juraska, J. M. (2024). The last stage of development: The restructuring and plasticity of the cortex during adolescence especially at puberty. Developmental psychobiology, 66(2), Article e22468. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22468
Drzewiecki, C. M., Brinks, A. S., Sellinger, E. P., Doshi, A. D., Koh, J. Y., & Juraska, J. M. (2023). Brief postnatal exposure to bisphenol A affects apoptosis and gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex and social behavior in rats with sex specificity. NeuroToxicology, 94, 126-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2022.11.011
Sellinger, E. P., Brinks, A. S., Javeri, R. R., Theurer, S. L., Wang, R., & Juraska, J. M. (2023). Region- and age-specific effects of perinatal phthalate exposure on developmental cell death and adult anatomy of dorsal and ventral hippocampus and associated cognitive behaviors. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 99, Article 107288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2023.107288
Juraska, J. M. (2022). Changes in sex differences in neuroanatomical structure and cognitive behavior across the life span. Learning and Memory, 29(9), 340-348. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053499.121
Drzewiecki, C. M., Willing, J., Cortes, L. R., & Juraska, J. M. (2021). Adolescent stress during, but not after, pubertal onset impairs indices of prepulse inhibition in adult rats. Developmental psychobiology, 63(5), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22111
